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The German Olympic team got off the field due to a racist incident
The warm-up game against Honduras was stopped five minutes before the end, following racist insults suffered by Jordan Toronariga from one of the rival players
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Saturday, 17 July 2021, 14:47
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The Olympic football tournament will start on Wednesday, even before the opening ceremony in Tokyo, but the preparation for it is far from going smoothly.
Today (Saturday) the German and Honduran Olympic teams held a preseason game in Wakayama, Japan (30 minutes each half), but it was stopped five minutes before it ended after the Germans demonstratively got off the field.
Why did they do that?
It turns out that defensive player Jordan Toronariga received racist comments during the game from one of the Honduran players.
The 23-year-old Torunariga, a native of Khamnitz in Germany whose Nigerian father played for the city's team in the 1990s, told his friends about it and the whole team decided to go down to the locker room in protest.
"The game was stopped five minutes before the end when the result was 1: 1," read the German team's Twitter account.
"After Jordan Toronariga was insulted by Gazni, the team left the field together."
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Torroniga, an actress of Hertha Berlin who this year starred in a documentary in which he described some of his experiences as a black footballer in Germany, has already received racist chants in the past.
In February 2020, it was Schalke fans who insulted him on racist grounds in a cup game and their team was fined 50,000 euros.
Just last week we witnessed a racist attack on the nets against Buccayo Saka, Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho, the three brown-skinned players of the England squad who missed the penalties in the Euro final against Italy.
"There is no room for racism or hatred in football," Saka wrote in response to the defamation.
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